San francisco/San Diego! :)

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San Francisco 28th june-1st july

So we got off to a rough start for San Fran, But we said fuck it were here now and its roastin hot, everything is gonna be great! Got off the green tortoise bus and started to look for our hotel, we knew we were staying on mission st, or something to that ring.HA! Not a clue really, It would be a great idea to actually print ur reservation out or even take down the phone number....ah no sure we’ll find it hahahaha.....we walked with our heavy backpacks through the streets of San Francisco....nowhere was open, ehhh hello? What the hell? Even somewhere so we could get wifi and use my laptop but no! We looked for people to ask where we were going but there was no one around, we came up to a huge building and rhona ran inside to ask where we were going! It was a Sunday and supposedly everything is shut on a Sunday (who the fuck made that rule!) Finally a woman told us that the hotel was on mission and 20th. We were on 3rd so means we’d have to walk 17 streets, no thankyou. We caught a bus which was absolutely JAMMED! People were looking at us as if we were aliens. It was gap pride weekend. So loads of people around.
Got off at 18th because there was so many people on the bus it was impossible to move and the driver kept letting more people on. Walked into our hotel, “el capitan” Doesnt look the most luxurious but sure were backpackers so it didn’t matter. We tried to check in and this thick ignorant prick of a manager was dealing with us. He was Indian, and the rudest person ive met in my life! His vocabulary consisted of “hah, what, no, stop” he was so god damn rude, he fired a pen at me to fill in registration form and he wanted the rest of the payment. So i gave him my credit card, he looked at it 10 times and then figured out how to slide it through the machine and presses the buttons about 5 times. (thick or what) then a receipt came out and he looks at it says hah and goes and swipes it again, and this time when it comes out i demand to see it. He tells me it didn’t work and i shout at him asking to see the receipts, he still wont give my my credit card back and has now got 3 receipts from the machine.I reach in and grap them he has put my card through 3 times for $45, $27, $10.40 when it should have only been $126.... WHAT THE FUCK. Such a stupid man! He blames my card saying it doesn’t work when clearly it does when i have all these receipts!!!!! Rhona runs to an atm to get cash for the idiot!
We get into our room its ok. Bed cover is about 90 years old! We took it off and put down 6 towels on the sheets, 3 my side and 3 rhonas. With 2 sheets and sleeping bag liners. Off we went to china town about a 40 minute walk stopping to watch the gap parade. I never realized there were so many good looking lesbians. Ha! We got to china town and had a look around, it was dirt cheap there. Rhona bought a wheely case like mine!  Went for Chinese in a restaurant, kung pao chicken, and this dirty brown chicken comes out. I said to the lady and she said “oh u didn’t want dark meat?” AH NO, I asked for chicken not fatty brown stuff!!! We walked back to our hotel after, and felt like we were gonna get mugged or raped. People shouting at us “white girls were ye going” there were so many homeless people ihere too just sleeping in trolleys and boxes. We ran as fast as we could to the hotel...got into bed and off to sleep!

DAY 2:
Woke up this morning with bites on my arms 3 each, thought ok it might be the Chinese cuz i never had that sauce before..we headed out with our map to the golden gate bridge, doesn’t look that far on the map... 10 miles later and we arrive at the golden gate bridge, its sooo cool. Unreal! It was bit foggy out so my pictures arnt great! We didn’t realise we had walked that far until we met a lady walking her baby and she asked where did we come from we told her mission district and 20th. She didn’t believe us saying it was 10 miles from there. Ha! Well it took us over 2.5 hours to get there so i figure! We got the bus back to union square as we were wrecked!! We walked form there back to mission..
Tonight i decided to sleep with my jeans and cardi on just incase anything decides to bite me! We left the lamp on falling asleep...went to bed at 12 and woke up at 1.30 itching...lifted back my pillow to discover 4 bed bug under it. I never jumped so fast outta a bed in my life!!! I shouted at rhona to get out..we discovered loads, went down told front desk and he told us he couldn’t give us a refund he had to wait for the manager to come tomorrow. We started shouting at him i was covered in HUGE bites. He moved our stuff into a different room and checked for bugs. I said to rhona this is it, im going home. I cant be dealing with this shit everywhere i go. Id rather be at home in Ireland then afraid to go to sleep at night incase id end up with bites all over me again the next day!
Obviously i didn’t sleep wanted to get the fuck outta there!! We sat on the edge of the bed until 8.30am...got up and went to the manager to complain! The thick ignorant Indian guy again GREAT! I demanded a full refund showin him my face arms and back! He told me to “shut my mouth” they had to check for bugs first. He walks up the stairs to our old room, i followed him thinking he was gonna get rid of the bugs and make out there was none. I had killed 4 and left them on the sheet so they could see them. He turns around and shouts at me “go to your room, stay in your room and i will call u when i want to see you” I told him to fuck up. That i wanted my money back at this stage i was furious and was shouting at him about BED BUGS so everyone in the hotel would know. He kept saying shhhh. And i told him i wouldn’t be quiet until i get my money back. He comes down to reception and says he will give us 2 nights back on card only, and i thought OH GREAT here we go again with him not bein able to use the machine i knew he would probally charge me again! So i said no i wanted our 3 nights back and in cash. Well he started freakin out all together pushin me out the door and down the stairs.
Eventually the owner came in and i explained what happened and i wanted 3 nights back, so he refunded us through rhona’s credit card. IDIOTS GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! 
Day 3
Was meant to go to Alcatraz this morning but because of the whole bed bugs thing we had 2 spend 3 hours washing our bags, clothes and shoes. Fun times hey! Washed everything and then go a bus to green tortoise and paid $5 for shower and use of internet until our flight tonight. We had a look around the piers, seen fishermans wharf, and pier 33 where the boat leaves for Alcatraz!
SAN DIEGO! July 1st-10th
Arrived in San diego at 8.30am, we weren’t allowed check in until 3pm. UGH. All we wanted was to sleep, we had slept at the airport last night. We dropped our bags off and headed to the beach with our towels, still fully dressed. We found a patch of grass and lay down and fell asleep there. Woke up it was 2.35pm so we walked back to hostel, I looked over at Rhona OMG, her face was absolutely burned raw!!!! Her arms too. Fuck! We weren’t even sunbathing... We went to our room neways and met 2 girls anna-bel and jackaline from Australia they were so nice there were two English boys in our room aswell, Tommy and Michael they were very friendly. Our 6 bed dorm was so cool we had huge bunk beds with space to sit up in woo. And we had little curtains aswell so cool!
We were staying on ocean beach, along the coast of California. Up north of that was mission beach and pacific beach. OB was the quietest of them all, which we didn’t know until we got there. The hostel was full of irish people!! We met 6 irish girls from cork over on the J1 visa but couldn’t find work anywhere, and all their accommodation plans fell through!
Saturday 4th july (INDEPENDENCE DAY!)
An ozzie guy who checked into our room brought us to pacific beach. It was soo cool, gorgeous much nicer than OB. We walked from pacific to mission (its all along the same stretch of beach!) Mental parties going on already and it was like 11am.
We got back to ocean beach backpackers(name of our hostel) and we got a 2 litre bottle of vodka for 2night!! We played beer pong with all the people from the hostel, some laugh. My partner was idu from Israel, I totally cant play beer pong im awful haha. Rhona is very good at it. Rhona was so drunk by 8.45pm she was in bed! I went out and met the irish girls and we went to the beach for a party. It was crazy down there!

Emma arrived today from Newport, she checked into the hostel about 6pm and i took her down to the beach and showed her around. We have new arrivals in our dorm today jess and john from England! They are sweet. They are on their RTW trip too but doing it in 6 months instead of 12.

Monday 6th
We decided it would be a fantastic idea to rent bikes and cycle to mission beach its about a 40 minute cycle around mission bay. We got there and our arses were broken from the bikes haha. Rhona refused to cycle any further it was so funny. Great exercise tho lol! We just browsed around the shops for few hours, and we were sunbathing aswell. We cycled back to the hostel but in the mean time rhona decided she was gonna walk it and me & emma went on ahead of her on the bikes. We ended up getting lost and arrived back to hostel at 7.35pm. Rhona had bet us home aswell hahaha how funny.

Wednesday 9th SAN DIEGO ZOO
Rhona, emma, jess, john and me went to the zoo today! It was only 10 mins down the road. We spend the whole day here and seen all the animals u can imagine. There were polar bears, koala’s, kangaroos, elephants, giraffes, zebras, parrots, whales, seals, meercats, gorillas! It was amazing, we were like little kids at the zoo. You’ll see my pics neways! 


We didn’t do anything to exciting in San Diego because we were on ocean beach and it was quite enough there. We couldn’t go out to bars or clubs because rhona wasn’t 21 and all they accepted as ID was passport. There was no way i was going bringin out my passport only to loose it being drunk. San diego is very strict on everything. No smoking on the street, no on the beach after 12am. No fires on the beach. No open drinking containers on the street not even a coke!!!!

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